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I spent a couple minutes wondering why I wasn’t finding the ending line in the ebook, until I realized that I’d been trying to look for the sentence from my other bookclub (ふしぎ駄菓子屋 銭天堂 1 | 이상한 과자 가게 전천당 1) :sweat_smile: :melting_face:

I’ll save my full thoughts for when I’ve completed this week’s reading, but I can already tell that so far this is the most difficult thing I’ve read in Korean. It’s not that the grammar structures themselves are super advanced, I know most of them, but the sentences are just too long so it takes me a while to make sense of them. There are also some combinations of grammar points that I’d never come across before, which makes the whole thing more difficult as well. Not to mention, some of the sentences are simply unexpected, so my brain tries to find alternate meanings, because surely the main character didn’t just think or say that, did she?

For example, I got stuck on “나는 히토미 선생님의 이 얼굴을 정말 좋아합니다. 다른 선생님들의 얼굴에 비해 거짓이 적다는 느낌이 드니까요.”
(at 4%) because I was certain that I was misunderstanding something. “This teacher’s face is beautiful, and saying that is less of a lie than saying it for other teachers” just wasn’t something that I even considered could be the correct meaning at first.

Also, kind of a stupid question, but what is the gender of this Hitomi teacher ? Since gender isn’t really mentionned, I only have the name to go off off, and my knowledge of Japanese names is not good enough to help in this case. Or it’s their last name, and we have no way of knowing that person’s gender right now :thinking:

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